
Barracuda: Emails now hide separate payloads for humans and AI to bypass review
Malwarebytes Labs warns that attackers embed secret instructions in emails to manipulate AI inbox tools into generating fraudulent to-do items for users.
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Malwarebytes Labs warns that attackers embed secret instructions in emails to manipulate AI inbox tools into generating fraudulent to-do items for users.

Microsoft plans to end the individual 1TB OneDrive storage benefit for shared Microsoft 365 Family subscribers, significantly reducing total cloud capacity for households.

Security researchers report that the Russia-aligned group UAC-0099 has continuously evolved its MATCHBOIL downloader tool since 2024.